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Maker Sirojudin Munir has designed a new sensor or sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) driver for brushless DC (BLDC) motors — and made it available to all under a permissive license, hardware and firmware. "I like building things from scratch," Munir explains by way of introduction to the project, "
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To better protect people’s privacy and reduce latency, artificial intelligence (AI) applications are increasingly finding their way onto small embedded devices. But conventional AI hardware can be a poor fit when power and processing resources are limited. Neuromorphic processors offer an alternative by taking inspiration from the way brains
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Open hardware specialist PINE64 has announced that it is exiting the Linux single-board computer, phone, and tablet market — at least until the bursting of the artificial intelligence (AI) bubble and a drop in sky-high component prices. "Due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans
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ChatGPT can arrange data in order and occasionally add numbers together. And when you’re lucky, it may produce confident, plausible-sounding output, regardless of whether its creations are accurate, appropriate or suited to the situation at hand. The rest of the time, it’s essentially a glorified search engine that’
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Apple released iOS 26.6.1 on Monday, Aug. 17, about a month before I expect the tech company to release iOS 27 to the general public. While the upcoming iOS 27 revamps Siri and other internal iPhone systems, iOS 26.6.1 brings over 20 bug fixes and security
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The reMarkable line is some of the best e-ink handwriting tablets we've ever tested - our hardware editor uses his collection every day for taking digital notes. And right now, the 11.8in reMarkable Paper Pro is down to $699 (was $799) and 7.3in reMarkable Paper Pro
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Internal AI access can create compliance and privacy risks. * Workspace admins can turn off intelligence sources. * Google gives Gemini access to Workspace data by default. I have long accepted one fundamental truth: Google knows everything
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* Geekom has admitted a software driver contained malware * A LAN driver on a legacy page was hosting the Asruex backdoor * The malware can track keystrokes, steal passwords, and intercept data Hardware maker Geekom has admitted that a network driver for multiple mini PC variants hosted Asruex backdoor malware, potentially putting
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* Hostinger launches AI Builder, moving beyond initial web design to help users set up and run backends, ecommerce, and marketing automatically * AI Builder was driven by demand, with non-traditional builds like SaaS, apps, and internal tools growing fivefold in the last 12 months * The new tool benefits from Hostinger’s
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks | August 18, 2026 at 1PM ET- Register to Attend Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing cybersecurity. As patch-to-exploit timelines shrink and attackers move at machine speed, long-standing security models are being put to the test. Can detection-first security operations keep pace, or is it time
